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SWK 208
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Title: | Social Work Case Management |
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Long Title: | Social Work Case Management |
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Course Description: | Prepares students for work in the area of social services case management. Some of the topics that students will study include client assessment, resource identification, interventions with diverse client populations, counseling, NASW Code of Ethics, linkage and outcome evaluation. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Status Notes: | New course to be offered for the first time in Spring |
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| S: 2002. |
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Course Notes: | 45 contact hours. Added Description, Competencies and |
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| C: Topical Outline. |
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Origin Notes: | PPCC |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
A. Discuss the concepts of the Case Management Model.
B. Evaluate and apply the components of the Model.
C. Discuss the practitioner¿s role in linking clients to needed services.
D. Apply the practice guidelines to diverse client populations.
E. Define the implications of the NSAW Code of Ethics as it relates to Case Management.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Interventions with highly vulnerable clients
A. Clients and circumstances
B. The nature of disabilities
C. Client strengths and deficits
D. Intervention requisites
E. Community based services
F. A practice paradigm
II. An Implementation Model
A. Fifteen functions of the model of intervention
B. Elaboration and clarification of model
C. Cultural and ethnic considerations
III. Intake, Assessment and Goal Setting
A. Understanding intake
B. Intake activities of case managers
C. Compiling a data base
D. Interpersonal relationships
E. Basic components of assessment
F. Agency and community factors
G. Assessment tools
H. Attaining specificity in goal setting
IV. Resource Identification and Intervention Planning
A. Understanding and using resources
B. Resource aggregation methods
C. Treatment and service aspects
D. Practice guidelines
E. Strategies for Problems of vulnerable populations
V. Counseling and Therapy
A. Understanding the differences between counseling and therapy
B. Theoretical approaches to personal helping
C. Guidelines for counseling and therapy
D. Crisis intervention
VI. Linking Clients to Formal Organizations
A. Understanding the formal linking process
B. The Practitioner¿s role
C. Practice guidelines for linking clients to formal organizations
D. Exercising practice roles with clients and agencies
VII. Linking Clients with Informal Support Networks
A. The place of informal support
B. Functions of informal support
C. Characteristics of informal networks
D. Practice guidelines for informal linkage
E. Helping unit assessment guidelines
VIII. Monitoring, Reassessment and Outcome Evaluation
A. Definition and purpose of monitoring
B. Client involvement
C. Monitoring aids
D. Formal and informal systems
E. Anticipating critical events
F. Using Management Information Systems
G. Assessment instruments
H. Discharge evaluation
IX. Advocacy
A. Advocacy and case management
B. Characteristics of advocacy
C. Practice guidelines for advocacy
D. Restraint
E. Advocacy activities
X Interorganizational and Coordination and Agency Access
A. The place of interagency coordination
B. Interdependence and domain consensus
C. Linking mechanisms
D. Practice guidelines
E. Identifying needs and targeting clients
F. Client outreach
G. Employing needs assessment techniques
XI. Planning Case Management Programs
A. Planning team or task force
B. Informing case management planning
C. SWOT analysis and strategic issues
D. Needs assessment and resource inventories
E. Formulating program goals
XII. Implementing Case Management Plans
A. Program design and development
B. Allocating agency resources
C. Case manager qualifications
D. Caseload size
E. Organizational structure
F. Managing information
G. Organizational problems and recommendations for program design
H. Evaluating case management programs
I. Panacea versus Cop Out?
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